Senior Engineering Manager

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Technology & Development

Job Description:

We are looking for a skilled Senior Engineering Manager to lead our Observability team. This role is based in Barcelona.

Your Role within the Kingdom

As an Senior Engineering Manager in Runtime & Insights your responsibility is to lead and empower the Observability team, delivering tools and services that enhance the reliability and insights of our global operations. You are not only a manager but also a product visionary, guiding both the technical roadmap and product strategy to ensure exceptional user value.

You'll lead a dedicated Observability team responsible for maintaining and advancing observability and reliability through robust logging, metrics, tracing, and profiling solutions. The products your team delivers will support developers and operational teams across King, ensuring optimal performance and health of our game platform.

You’ll collaborate closely with engineering teams, influencing strategies around how we monitor all King games and services across our Public Cloud footprint, while championing best practices in DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, motivate and inspire a team of passionate engineers that own and operate the observability platform at King.
• Lead both technical strategy and product management within Observability, driving product vision and execution.
• Build and evolve solutions for observability leveraging Grafana (collector and dashboarding), Loki (logs), Mimir (metrics), and Pyroscope (profiling).
• Act as an ambassador for on-call practices, leveraging PagerDuty for incident management and promoting robust reliability engineering culture.
• Drive adoption and best practices for Site Reliability Engineering.
• Collaborate effectively across King to understand business needs and align technical deliverables.
• Foster a supportive, inclusive team environment that nurtures career growth and team cohesion.

Skills to Create Thrills

• 7+ years leading and motivating high performing engineering teams.
• Deep expertise in cloud platforms, particularly Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Strong understanding of observability tools and concepts, including metrics, logs, traces, and profiling.
• Practical experience with Grafana, Loki, Mimir, Pyroscope, and PagerDuty.
• Solid experience managing technical teams, driving product roadmaps, and managing stakeholder expectations.
• Proven leadership in creating a healthy engineering culture emphasizing collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Excellent strategic thinking, capable of independently contributing to King’s broader technology and product strategies.

Healthy Team

• Ability to build and maintain a structured, high-performing team with clearly defined roles aligned with strategic priorities.
• Demonstrated success in mentoring team members, fostering communication, and embedding a collaborative and service-oriented mindset.

About King

With a mission of Making the World Playful, King is a leading interactive entertainment company with more than 20 years of history of delivering some of the world’s most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry, including the world-famous Candy Crush franchise, as well as other mobile game hits such as Farm Heroes Saga. King games are played by more than 200 million monthly active users. King, part of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), has Kingsters in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona, Berlin, Dublin, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles and Malta. More information can be found at King.com or by following us on LinkedIn, @lifeatking on Instagram, or @kinggames on X.

About Us

We bring moments of magic to hundreds of millions of people every single day. We create unforgettable games that are loved around the world.

We take the art and science of gaming to the next level through curiosity for the unexplored, passion for games, respect for each other, and love for our players.

Who we are

King is a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world, with people all around the world playing one or more of our games, including franchises such as Candy Crush, Farm Heroes, Pet Rescue and Bubble Witch. We have 249 million monthly active users as of fourth quarter 2019 across web, social and mobile platforms. King was acquired by Activision Blizzard Inc. (Nasdaq ATVI) in February 2016 and operates as an independent unit of the company.

Our passion

Making great games is incredibly challenging but we’ve proven it can be done… and we see a world of possibilities ahead. We’re challenging ourselves to dream bigger in a Seriously Playful way. We’re experimenting, learning, and adapting continuously to shape the industry in ways yet to be imagined.

We’re passionate about bringing moments of magic to our players and we’re not afraid to have fun along the way. Above all, we play as a team, helping each other have impact on a massive scale. And we’ll know we’ve outdone ourselves when we’ve inspired the world to play.

If you share our passion, our values, and our hunger to shape the future, join us in Making the World Playful!

Together, we’ll create new experiences that raise the bar, delight billions of people, and redefine the world of games again and again.

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